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3 - 4 Chelsea House
Festival Place
Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 7JR
England
Victoria Works
Benjamin Street
Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF29AR
England
We deal in a wide variety of Pianos traditional &
Madbrook Farm
Warminster Road
Westbury, Wiltshire BA133RB
England
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39 Finch Road
Douglas, Isle of Man IM12PW
England
Peter Norris Music has now been trading for 20
90 Bedhampton Road
Havant, Hampshire PO9 3EZ
England
Bedhampton Pianoshop was established in 1988, and
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Temperament
Temperament is both the process and result of making slight changes to the pitches of a pure musical scale, so that the octave may be conveniently divided into a usable number of notes and intervals. In the history of Western music's 12-note octave tradition, there have been several, fundamentally different forms of temperament applied to the developing keyboard. Music suffers when performed in a tuning that is different than that which the composer used in its creation.
Well Temperament Keyboards
Well Temperament Keyboards may be tuned so that all keys are musically usable, but contain varying degrees of the "wolf". This is the tuning used in this recording. Between the Early Baroque and Romantic eras, the popular tuning was something between Meantone and Equal Temperament. This era was a brief, transitional stage in temperament history, but considering the music composed during this period, its importance cannot be overlooked. This style of tuning is called "Well Temperament" following the use of the term by J.S. Bach. The term refers to a genre, rather than a specific temperament, as there were many Well Temperaments in use between 1700 and 1825.
